Dos Box scares me. I'm afraid of anything that fools with my pc like that. I'm fairly pc proficient and knowledgeable, but this stuff makes me nervous. I'd love to play the TM games again on my pc, though. Am I being foolish? With some help from my friends (you guys) should I take the plunge and try it?
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, hahaha. I think I'm fine 
DosBox7.1 works pretty well on it.
Dos box has done me well for a couple years now (i got The Pandora Directive ripped to my HD and it plays perfectly without disc swapping).
One thing that is invaluable when using dos box however is D-fend. It's a profile program that instantly loads up the game in dos box with whatever variables you've set for sound and memory etc.
It makes fiddling with a game to get it to work a lot easier ^^
One thing that is invaluable when using dos box however is D-fend. It's a profile program that instantly loads up the game in dos box with whatever variables you've set for sound and memory etc.
It makes fiddling with a game to get it to work a lot easier ^^
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Agreed, I love DosBox - it has opened the door to so many games I thought I'd never play again. I've been using it constantly for 2 years as well.
I used it on a Dell laptop with a centrino 1.6Ghz processor and it was fast enough to run games like Ultima VII, Martian Memorandum and Mean Streets flawlessly. I now have a P4 3.2GHz box with 2 Gigs of RAM and it runs almost everything just fine including the Tex Murphy games. Strangely, I could only run Test Drive Off-Road, Duke Nukem 3D and Whiplash in the worst available graphics resolutions
I'm getting off the subject - Get DosBox and use it to play the Tex Murphy games. You'll be glad.
As far as running DosBox where each game has the settings you want, I've just made copies of DosBox.conf, changed the settings, and even added some autotype steps in the last part of the end, i.e. mount c c:\, mount d d:\ -t cdrom, c:, cd moon, moon and then when you set up a desktop shortcut to DosBox with the new .conf as a command-line parameter it just flat runs it - one double-click and you're playing the game.
I used it on a Dell laptop with a centrino 1.6Ghz processor and it was fast enough to run games like Ultima VII, Martian Memorandum and Mean Streets flawlessly. I now have a P4 3.2GHz box with 2 Gigs of RAM and it runs almost everything just fine including the Tex Murphy games. Strangely, I could only run Test Drive Off-Road, Duke Nukem 3D and Whiplash in the worst available graphics resolutions
I'm getting off the subject - Get DosBox and use it to play the Tex Murphy games. You'll be glad.
As far as running DosBox where each game has the settings you want, I've just made copies of DosBox.conf, changed the settings, and even added some autotype steps in the last part of the end, i.e. mount c c:\, mount d d:\ -t cdrom, c:, cd moon, moon and then when you set up a desktop shortcut to DosBox with the new .conf as a command-line parameter it just flat runs it - one double-click and you're playing the game.
I agree with all the folks here-Dosbox is great. I've been running it for several years on my Dell laptop P4 2.6Ghz w/ 768RAM. Runs UAKM and PD pretty much smoothly. There are only a few dos games I have not been able to get running in Win XP one way or another-one being Ripper. Oh well, can't have it all I guess...
I have NEVER been able to play Ripper through. For some reasons, the cyberspace-sequences screws up the graphics, and the game becomes unplayable. It's done this with every computer I've owned.
Oh well...
-Fred
Oh well...
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
I definitely believe that game has some glitches. I've only played it through once, and that was on my old Pentium 3 800mgz Windows ME computer. Even then I think it had problems.Fred Buer wrote:I have NEVER been able to play Ripper through. For some reasons, the cyberspace-sequences screws up the graphics, and the game becomes unplayable. It's done this with every computer I've owned.
Oh well...
-Fred
Sigh...I really hated Windows ME...the primary reason I purchased my college laptop about five months earlier than I was planning.